Improved cord-tightener tor curtain-fixtures



@@tuit Mem www ALBERT CARTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE K. RYAN, OF SAME PLACE.

Leiters Patent No. 90,922, dated June 8, 1869.

,'IMPRQVED CORD-TIGHTENER FOR CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Vlatenl: and making part of the same.

T 0 n 'whom it malponcem is provided with a cross-piece, d, around which the Be it known that I, ALBERT CARTER, of the city strap e passes, and is firmly attached to thc windowand State of N ew York, have invented, made, and apcasing, o r other point ofattachment, by the screw, or plied to use, a new and useful Improvement in Cordnail f. Tighteners for Curtain-Fixtlu'es; and I .do hereby The strap e, passing .around the cross-plece d, is declare the following to be a full, clear,land exact de-` clamped, said cross-piece d, in connection with-the scription of the said invention, reference being had to frame c, forming a clamping-buckle, so that the strap the annexed drawing, making part of this speciicae can be tightened up, as occasion may require,`and, tion, whereinif necessary, it may be loosened, thereby greatly facili- Figure 1 is`an elevation of said cordftightener; and tating the adjustment of the tension of the curtain- Figure 2 is a partial section of the same, vertically. cord, and, at the same time, the strap can be of orna- Similar parts are denoted by the same letters. mental woven material, so that the appearance ofthe This invention is to furnish a cheap and reliable fixture is much better than the usual brass slide. means for tightening the cords of curtain-fixtures; What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patand consists in a strap, of ilexible material, passing ent, isthrough a clamping-buckle, that carries a grooved seg- Clamping-buckle, formed by Athe cross-piece d and ment, or Wheel, around which the cord passes. frame c, in combination wlth the grooved segment, or

This device allows the endless cord to be tightened wheel a, and the adj listing-strap, as and for the puror slackened with great facility, and the friction of poses set forth. the endless cord, in passing around the grooved seg- In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signa'- rnent, or wheel, prevents the curtain running down by ture, this 5th day of April, 1869. its own weight. ALBERT CARTER.

In the drawingy a is a segment, or a Wheel with a grooved edge, for "Witnesses: the cord b to pass around. GHAs. H. SMITH,

' This segment is attached rmly to the frame c, that y GEO. T. PINGKNEY. 

